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February 13, 1995
What's new?
Version 0.44
* Fixed bug where starting up VxFTP for the first time
after installation and click "re-attempt logins"
would cause the program to immediately try to re-login
even though there was no hostname given.
* Added the ability to see file date and sizes right in the
remote file listbox. Also added the ability to sort ascending
(by filename), descending, or no sorting at all. "No sorting"
is fastest, obviously.
* Added the ability to choose between the directory command
VxFTP issues. The 'dir' command gets file and directory
information, generally in alpha order. The 'ls' command gets
only a list of files and directories (with no distinction
between the two); for many sites, the order is by time,
from least to most recent.
* A downloaded file now gets text in its .COMMENTS extended
attribute relating the site, the directory, the time and date
that VxFTP downloaded it. Files downloaded can then be
search for (using the WPS Find... command) by the site
it was downloaded from, etc.
* If VxFTP is minimized during a file transfer, it pops up a
dialog box onces the transfer(s) is (are) completed. This
dialog took focus away from the app the user was using
but did not return it. VxFTP now returns focus to the other
app once the user clicks the OK button.
* Sometimes, Unzip would fail and the user would never know
why. Included an option in the Settings Notebook to
display the STDOUT from unzip.exe. Window closes by itself
in 5 seconds if user doesn't close it.
* Added the Site command.
* Added a menu item to allow the user to refresh the local
lists.
Version 0.43
Most of my efforts this time were spent trying to incorporate
Firewall support, but as of yet, I've been unsuccessful. Will
keep plugging at it though.
* Added support for parsing Windows NT server output.
(Unfortunately, ftp.microsoft.com identifies itself as
a Windows NT server but puts out UNIX directory listings.)
* Fixed a bug in parsing Novell server directory path.
* Added support for multiple attempts to log in when
earlier attempts fail. Such situations are common when
trying to log into busy anonymous FTP sites such as
hobbes.nmsu.edu or ftp.cdrom.com. Retries are every
15 seconds.
* Added 'space free' on current local drive.
* Added a Quote command to send commands to the
server verbatim.
* Added some messages in status window.
* Improved icon (in my opinion) for 800x600 resolution.
Version 0.42
* Re-architected the relationship between the thread that
manages the interface and the thread that handles the
remote connection. Much cleaner relationship now.
* Added directory contents caching. Through use of a Notebook
settings page, user can control whether to use caching,
how many directories to cache (up to 15), and how long
to age them (up to an hour). This feature substantially
increases performance, especially over SLIP and PPP
connections.
* User can view the directories in the cache using a non-modal
dialog box. From there, the user can select a directory in
order to change directly to it.
* Fixed (I hope) the problem where user cannot kill program
when the connection hangs or dies. User should use the
system menu's "Close" menu choice.
* Re-worked menus to solve a VX-REXX problem where using
popup-menu ruins the pull-down menus' behaviour.
* Speeded up screen re-draws when user resizes.
* Program now remembers last position and size. Program
will start up at the same size and position.
* Added the ability to turn off Hints!
* Added file transfer type text over the Get/Put buttons.
Version 0.41a
* Fixed a bug related to displaying files from VMS systems.
* Added suppport for detecting file sizes and dates on certain
VMS systems.
* Added the ability to tell VxFTP what OS the remote host is
running in case automatic detection doesn't work. You can
even change it on the fly, after you've logged in. The login
dialog box includes a field to specify the OS at login time.
* Added the ability to save login information from the login
dialog box to the Alias list, rather than requiring the user
to go to the Settings Notebook.
* Added "Copy" to the Local files pop-up menu.
* Added the ability to unzip a ZIP archive into a new sub-
directory. The new subdirectory name can be either extracted
from the ZIP archive name or the user will be prompted for
a directory name.
* Allow interaction with local files while downloading or
uploading. For instance, while you're downloading, you can
now unzip the file you just downloaded, view its read.me,
and execute it.
* Support for both InfoZIP's unzip and PKUnzip.
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June 6, 1994
First off, VxFTP is a little more stable and coherent.
Added since version 0.39:
* Displays file and directory listings for:
- Macintoshes
- DEC's VAX-VMS
- IBM VM
- as well as PCs running OS/2 FTPD, and UNIX hosts
* For platforms that VxFTP can't interpret directory listings,
a menu item (Long Dir Listing) allows you to see what
data came back from the host.
* Support for saving Font settings on the local and remote
file lists. Sorry, VX-REXX is having problems with giving
me font info on the directory lists.
* Notebook setting to allow using the 'E' system editor
as the default viewer.
* Default directory setting in the Notebook.
* Fixed problem with the objects redrawing themselves at
launch-time and after restoring from a minimized state.